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Barlow let out a light chuckle.
“Rosalynn, why are you touching me? Don’t take advantage of me. Karina might get jealous.”
Rosalynn wasn’t in the mood for banter. She found the acupuncture point on his neck and carefully
inserted the needle.
However, simply pricking that one acupuncture point wouldn’t suffice. She needed to insert needles into
other acupuncture points as well.
The problem was that they were currently trapped amidst a heap of stones, and she couldn’t stretch
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“Rosalynn, don’t waste your energy. It might be better if I don’t make it out of here. Maybe this would
make Kennedi feel relieved.”
Barlow’s voice grew progressively weaker. “Promise me that you won’t cause any trouble for her once
you get out of here. I owe her, and I have finally repaid that debt.”
His voice gradually faded, and she sensed his life slipping away.
Rosalynn’s eyes welled up with tears.
“Don’t talk like that, Barlow. You will be okay. Help will arrive soon.”
Barlow answered between labored huffs of breath, “I haven’t finished my mission yet. Keep my identity
a secret. My superior will send someone to take over my work.”
Rosalynn sobbed, “Okay. I swear I won’t say anything.”
Barlow coughed another mouthful of blood, his nostrils flooding with the taste of iron.
“Don’t tell Brian. I want to see him mad with jealousy. He acted hastily and hit me without
understanding the situation, and that annoying mother of his almost hurt Karina. I have to get even
somehow.”
Karina’s tears fell without stopping. 2
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏm“Okay. I’ll do everything you say. But you have to hold on, Barlow.”
Barlow hacked a few harsh coughs, his eyes turning slightly hazy. “Even I want that. Karina…I want to
embrace her just once more. But I really can’t anymore…”
His hands slid down slowly.
In this dark and desolate place, even the air turned mournful.
Rosalynn desperately patted the unconscious man and screamed, “No! Barlow!
Wake up! You’re a man, aren’t you? You can’t give up here. Karina is waiting for you. You have to go
and see her!”
No other sound came from the darkness but the echoes of her own cries.
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